Category Archives: CFP

Deadline Extended 31/12/2017 Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World 16-19 May 2018 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Minneapolis, USA Keynotes: Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut State University) and Vladimir Urbanek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) The Programme Committee for the 7th Annual Scientiae Conference invites submissions for individual papers or […]

Final Reminder: Oxford 2016 Proposals Due 15 November The deadline for proposals for the fifth annual Scientiae conference (Oxford, 5-7 July 2016) on disciplines of knowing in the early modern world (roughly 1400-1800) is 15 November 2015. The major premise of this conference series is that knowledge during this period was inherently interdisciplinary, involving complex mixtures of theories, […]

The CFP deadline for Scientiae 2015 (University of Toronto, 27-29 May) is 17 November 2014. Paper, panel, and round-table proposals are invited for the fourth annual international conference on the emergent knowledge practices of the early-modern period (1450-1750). The major premise of this conference is that knowledge during the period of the Scientific Revolution was inherently interdisciplinary, involving […]

The CFP for Scientiae 2015 (University of Toronto, 27-29 May) is now available online. Paper, panel, and round-table proposals are invited for the fourth annual international conference on the emergent knowledge practices of the early-modern period (1450-1750). The major premise of this conference is that knowledge during the period of the Scientific Revolution was inherently interdisciplinary, involving complex mixtures […]

CFP: Early Modern Scholarship and Science. A Multidisciplinary Approach (ed. Vittoria Feola) Publisher and Series: Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History We are delighted to announce our call for papers for publication of a book including 20 re-worked papers from Scientiae 2014 to be edited by Vittoria Feola. Given the multidisciplinary nature of Scientiae, submission of abstracts is […]

The CFP for Scientiae Toronto 2015 (27-29 May) is now available online. Paper, panel, and round-table proposals are invited for the fourth annual international conference on the emergent knowledge practices of the early-modern period (1450-1750). The major premise of this conference is that knowledge during the period of the Scientific Revolution was inherently interdisciplinary, involving complex mixtures of practices […]

We are delighted to announce our call for papers for publication of a special issue of Nuncius, Journal of the material and visual history of science. Vittoria Feola is the volume editor. Given the multidisciplinary nature of Scientiae, submission of abstracts are encouraged about the history of early modern medicine as well as about any other […]

The Call for Papers for Scientiae 2014 in Vienna (23-25 April 2014) is now available online. Abstracts for individual papers of 25 minutes should be between 250 and 350 words in length. For panel sessions of 1 hour and 45 minutes, a list of speakers (with affiliations), as well as a 500-word abstract, is required. Roundtable […]

Shadows of the Mind: Discourses of Superstition and Nature in the Early Modern World Special Issue of Preternature Edited by James A.T. Lancaster and Richard Raiswell The advent of novel approaches in early modernity to understanding and mastering nature—from natural magic, to natural history, to natural philosophy—motivated discourse about how best to distill true knowledge […]